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Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by ykonstant » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 10:04 AM UTC

surfsvammel wrote: post #9

I went gruvbox some years ago and now cannot live without it. I’m using a base16 variant of it.

As far as dark themes go, I have settled on a variant of gruvbox (base16-gruvbox-dark-pale) and do not see myself changing any time soon. Just see how harmonious texts from different contexts look: https://i.redd.it/p5h7ongm51541.jpg

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by ghosty141 » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 10:08 AM UTC

ykonstant wrote: post #47

I tried very hard to find a satisfying light-themed color scheme for Vim, but I have not had much success so far. Most of them have a grey or white base that I don't care about; I wanted something more pastel or warmer and found solarized to be a bit too intense. I wrote and now use my own colorscheme [0] but I think there is much room for improvement. [0] https://i.redd.it/psmi7s4gcfy51.png

I also wrote my own colorscheme (loosely based on an existing one) for emacs and I love it. Everything is the way I want it and I know what to customize if I want to change something

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by christophilus » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 10:13 AM UTC

sandGorgon wrote: post #17

petepete wrote: post #11

Over recent years I've been drawn to the cross-tool themes like Nord and Dracula. https://www.nordtheme.com/ https://draculatheme.com/ Having consistency between neovim, fzf, bat, tmux, tig and fish is lovely.

oh man dracula is so good. just installed on my vscode. 25 years with vim...all the way with vscode now

You switched from VIM to VS Code? How was that transition?

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by Fritsdehacker » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 10:31 AM UTC

mrblampo wrote: post #2

Just recently started using the built-in colorscheme "blue" and I love it.

Reminds me of all the hours I spent learning to program in QBasic.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by tempodox » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 10:41 AM UTC

johncoltrane wrote: post #35

FWIW, modern reworks of the built-in colorschemes are on their way [1]. We plan to add more third-party colorschemes in the future as we streamline the creation and validation process. [1] https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/9795

Nice. I love that the OP has so many themes to pick from but repeatedly trying 3rd-party color schemes over the years only made me realize how many criteria have to be met for a color scheme to actually work for me in practice (apparently I'm very picky when it comes to that). I have yet to find one that beats vim's `default` theme. The only tweak I made is to not use underline for the current line but a slightly darker background gray and a bold font face.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by toastal » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 10:46 AM UTC

Due note that this can only poll for colorschemes on GitHub. It does not poll from alternative Git forges nor does it allow you to manually add your theme. Sites like this are pressuring users that want ho market their themes to use a closed-source platform for open-source code.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by mwid » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 11:03 AM UTC

petepete wrote: post #45

ithrow wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With the vim plugin? If not, how did you adapt?

I might've misunderstood the question but Dracula has per-app configs available: https://draculatheme.com/visual-studio-code They're all separate projects on GitHub so you can usually just use them with your regular plugin manager or even a git submodule.

I think they're asking how they adapted their workflow seeing as the way you use Vim and VSCode is so wildly different.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by johncoltrane » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 11:27 AM UTC

johncoltrane wrote: post #40

KwisaksHaderach wrote: post #7

Does dark themes lets your focus more than light themes?

I've seen research that supported that idea and research that didn't so I'm not sure it is possible to provide a definitive answer to that question. As a colorscheme author, though, I can attest that working on a dark background gives me a lot more "range", so to speak, than on a light background, which tends to make "dark" colorschemes much easier to create and more expressive. For me, the sweat spot is at around 10…

Sweet spot, actually.

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by nerdponx » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 11:42 AM UTC

ykonstant wrote: post #47

I tried very hard to find a satisfying light-themed color scheme for Vim, but I have not had much success so far. Most of them have a grey or white base that I don't care about; I wanted something more pastel or warmer and found solarized to be a bit too intense. I wrote and now use my own colorscheme [0] but I think there is much room for improvement. [0] https://i.redd.it/psmi7s4gcfy51.png

Everforest has a nice warm light mode with a yellowish background. https://github.com/sainnhe/everforest

Re: Vim Color Schemes

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Post by fooyc » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 11:48 AM UTC

obiwanpallav1 wrote: post #30

I've been using `Apprentice` theme https://github.com/romainl/Apprentice Has been a great experience so far

I love this color scheme. I’ve just replaced the yellow color with some shade of blue, and it’s perfect.